Relax, You Don’t Need to ‘Eat Clean’

I like this "scientific evidence based nutritionist" by the name of Michael Greger. He pushes out a lot of content, going through the paper to draw actionable conclusions.

Here's what he has to say about some of the topics of the article:

Salt (6 videos) — https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=greger+salt

Bacon (now a class I carcinogen, like smoking and asbestos): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7zTJ5LnO1E

MSG (no scientific evidence it hurts): https://nutritionfacts.org/video/update-on-msg

GMOs: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-gmos-safe-the-case-of-r...

The Monsanto Round-up pesticide often found on "Round-up Ready" (TM) GMOs: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-monsantos-roundup-pestic...

The article also mentioned people ove-rdiagnozing gluten intolerance. So what?! And is says:

> We demonized fats. Then cholesterol. Then meat.

Yes, well some of us did, because when I look around I see still loads of fat and high-cholesterol animal product consumed. Cutting out (most) animal products —the only dietary source of cholesterol— is great way to improve your health, same with cutting out processed fat (oils/butter).

> If people want to avoid foods, even if there’s no reason to, is that really a problem?

There's plenty reason! That's the problem, you cannot let big corps be in charge of their own regulations (and thats what the hollow-democracies allow big corps to do). Since we cannot fix those democracies, we simply: buy organic, and eat plant-based, and/or "clean", and what not.

> The answer is: yes. Because it makes food scary. And being afraid of food with no real reason is unscientific — part of the dangerous trend of anti-intellectualism that we confront in many places today.

Therefor I quote Dr Greger. He does loads of research, and find plenty of evidence for not choosing a go-with-the-flow standard american diet, if you want to live a healthy life.

Here a good talk of Greger at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNY7xKyGCQ

> If there’s one thing you should cut from your diet, it’s fear.

Sure, I'd love to. Just gimme clean food and I have nothing to fear. Given the stack of evidence I should clearly steer clear of much of what my supermarket offers: much of it is straight up poison. The people that do so, and base their diet on whole plant foods are in much better health, this is what Dr Greger shows with an undeniable amount of scientific evidence.

TL;DR: Very weak article, zero science behind their "fear not your food, because it's unscientific fear", and it calls those eating "clean" to be anti-intellectual.